>But I thought there was no backlinks in the FPT to point back to the DBF record who owns it? In cases where the FPT pointers in the DBF are corrupted (or the pointers are fine but the content of the FTP has been corrupted) how can you parse the FPT and "know" what DBF row that chunk belongs to? Apologies if my understanding of the internal structure of DBFs v. FPTs is incorrect.

There are no backlinks, but what he meant was to offer the orphans in the FPT to the operator, from which it would be possible to pick the most probable one to fit a particular unlinked record in the dbf. The orphan would probably be some earlier version of the memo's content, the best that can be done in such a situation.